Heavy layered darkness

Black-and-white Japanese manga. dip-pen lines with crisp tapered ends and strong thick-to-thin variation, two or three layers of halftone screentone, highlights scraped out to white with a cutter, smaller natural-shaped eyes, standard proportions, 6 to 7 heads tall, the place drawn in detail with ruled lines in perspective, shadows as solid black and flat tone, the figure kept clear against it, dark ominous mood. No text, speech balloons, panel borders, signatures or watermarks. Subject: An adult man and woman discuss a small empty tea bowl in a garden at dusk. Ear-length hair for him, shoulder-length hair for her, plain casual clothes. Show faces and hands waist-up, a wall and ground boundary.

Black-and-white Japanese manga. dip-pen lines with crisp tapered ends and strong thick-to-thin variation, two or three layers of halftone screentone, highlights scraped out to white with a cutter, smaller natural-shaped eyes, standard proportions, 6 to 7 heads tall, the place drawn in detail with ruled lines in perspective, shadows as solid black and flat tone, the figure kept clear against it, dark ominous mood. No text, speech balloons, panel borders, signatures or watermarks. Subject: An adult woman holds a small empty tea bowl with both hands at a garden entrance. Shoulder-length hair, a plain top, long skirt and flat shoes. Show her complete figure from head to feet, the gate and ground.